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Last night on NPR, Dick Gordon interviewed Trish Geran of the F Street Coalition. If you missed the broadcast, you can get it here, on the website for Gordon’s “The Story.” Geran recounts the Westside community’s successful fight to reopen the street.
On a personal note, I was also interested in the first segment, about the 50th [...]

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Updated 5:19 PM, 2/3/10
God save the Hard Rock Hotel

Someone tipped us off on this huge faux pas, found at a Sex Pistols/punk memorabilia case inside the new casino at the Hard Rock. Hey, corporate “rockers”: It’s “God Save the Queen” — the title of the Pistols’ most controversial hit — not “God Bless the Queen.”

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Updated 11:21 AM, 2/1/10
Pot dispensaries blooming across Vegas

More than two months after CityLife predicted they would, enterprising activists are openly challenging Nevada’s longstanding prohibition of medical marijuana dispensaries.
In recent weeks, a handful of California-style pot clinics has cropped up across the Las Vegas valley, offering patients who hold state-issued medical marijuana cards the chance to get their medicine from someone besides a [...]

Updated 9:00 PM, 1/28/10
Various Thigs & Stuff
Out with the old, in with the new

Today marks a big change in the blog world, readers: We are closing down Various Things & Stuff and starting up an all-new blog, called SlashPolitics.com.
Don’t fret: You’ll still get all the blogging you’ve come to expect from us at Various Things & Stuff, although we will be losing the royal “we,” along with the [...]

Updated 11:30 AM, 1/11/10
‘The Response’ gets nod for Oscar vote

The Response, a short film about a panel of military judges weighing the guilt or innocence of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, has been selected as one of 10 short films to advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. We featured this riveting movie in CityLife back in October, shortly after it [...]

Updated 10:38 AM, 1/10/10
Las Vegas monorail: ‘A mess’

The Las Vegas monorail has consistently disappointed when it comes to meeting its revenue and ridership projections.
The Las Vegas monorail is “a mess” in terms of its flagging ability to repay its debts. It seems overly optimistic ridership and revenue projections are the culprit, but there’s a lot more detail in this story by Dan [...]

Updated 10:23 AM, 1/10/10